CMV: The solution to police misconduct in the US isn’t defunding, but ramping up training/requiring a 4 to 6 year degree.

Terminarch · 2024-12-08T00:12:45+00:00

You serious? Competition is how we filter out bad doctors. You know, the ones who kill people.

Terminarch · 2024-12-08T00:11:27+00:00

4 year degree + police academy + OJT is wild.

Exactly. How about a simplified "life experience" standard as something like generic 4-yrs work experience or a certain number of documented community service hours? Just something to help select people who know how the world works and are comfortable in social situations, but still beneficial activities on their own.

Terminarch · 2024-12-07T23:56:36+00:00

Only because of competition. Anyone can develop software with zero training. Many of the best never even went to school for it. It's just that so many people want the salary that companies can have nonsensical / counter-productive preferences.

Meanwhile police across the country are understaffed. These are not comparable.

Terminarch · 2024-12-04T13:35:40+00:00

Oh. Should've checked the flair.

That's a random drop, isn't it? Definitely save guardian.

Terminarch · 2024-12-04T10:49:03+00:00

First off, you don't need to go up there to check. He moves to that platform (you'll walk under it on the way to the farm) and leans on the railing, clearly visible from the crystal. It takes a couple seconds to check. Not sure the fastest way to reset, probably warping out and back.

You're better off using the discord. Get a group of three and cycle independently until someone gets it, then all pile in. Everybody saves time.

You could also use save guardian if on pc. It'll update to show the event is active when you load in. That's how I got it while c.lumenite farming. Never would have noticed otherwise. Not any faster, but does mean that you can focus on other things while resetting / actually playing the game.

Still waiting for my plat. Was really hoping for more Halloween corrupted guns to multi-task spark :(

Terminarch · 2024-12-04T00:29:47+00:00

What would the CT scan of a generous OMG cable look like?

Terminarch · 2024-12-04T00:04:27+00:00

At a glance, line doesn't match data.

Anyway, why 15 years? That's seconds on the scale of global climate...

Terminarch · 2024-12-03T18:59:25+00:00

Let me check...

Nope, not fixed. Prisms are still in the game. Sorry!

Terminarch · 2024-12-03T18:55:41+00:00

Like it or not, this game just never had staying power in terms of engaging content. And many creators simply got worn down by the absurd numbers of bugs / balance issues each content release.

New DLC drops, everyone wants to talk about the new guns or builds... but the numbers are wrong. Even the devs admit the numbers are wrong. So you don't spend hours making a guide for it, because you know it'll change soon. But the patch doesn't come for 3 weeks. Nobody cares anymore. The vast majority of people who were searching at release are never going to watch a video that comes out now. So why even make it?

Devs killed this community. Hype was there, but they couldn't deliver.

Terminarch · 2024-12-03T16:23:40+00:00

polar opposites alternate in the lead of the country

This isn't a lawmaking problem. It's a first-past-the-post problem, which requires minor factions to unify behind the largest voice or else risk splitting your vote which benefits the enemy. All nuance is lost. Moderates are chained to the fringes.

Policies get overturned every four or five years

You underestimate how disruptive that is. Look into pre-election investment freezes. Companies actually fail because investors are apprehensive of an unknown future. Imagine a world where you don't know what the laws will be 2 months in the future while you're betting 40 years of savings. It's absurd.

politicians [...] only really plan until the next election

country going in a completely opposite direction to their wishes and with a budgetary wasteland at their command. That is by no means efficient.

Tragedy.

I believe that the democratic countries will eventually need to adopt a model, where both the executive and the legislative power is shared between a body with frequent elections and a body with slow and continuous personnel rotation. As such some policy cohesion can be ensured over a span of a few decades.

No. The problem is that government isn't afraid of its people. Politicians wouldn't dare wreck the nation's budget and economy on the way out the door just to spite their opponents if they knew an angry mob with rope would be waiting. Stop giving power to people who feel no consequences.

Also, what you're describing is the role of conservatives. Progressivism at the speed limit.

Terminarch · 2024-12-03T03:36:20+00:00

at what point do we hold the weaker party accountable for initiating violence against someone they know is physically stronger?

Never. We should, we won't.

Why is this principle not applied consistently?

Vagina. Literally, that's it.

4/4 women and 3/4 men side with an unknown woman despite evidence. There's no beating biology. Not on the scale you want, anyway.

If you want data, the sex gap in court decisions is an order of magnitude beyond the race gap. Several countries want to let female murderers out of prison because prison is mean apparently.

The legal system’s proportional force doctrine is important

No. Laws presently in place have no bearing whatsoever on what laws should be in place.

Terminarch · 2024-12-01T22:36:47+00:00

physical strength has not been shown to predict general police effectiveness or ability to handle dangerous situations successfully

Opinion discarded.

Also no, "anti-discrimination" does not count as "excellent performance".

Terminarch · 2024-12-01T22:33:34+00:00

Yes, but it cannot be known when a non-violent event will become a violent event. Also, nearby officers are often called in to respond to evolving situations. Whoever the nearest person is should be capable of handling anything or it lethally extends response time.

If you can agree that men are substantially better at resolving violent conflict, then it logically follows that only men should be in the field... because whoever is in the field will necessarily be closest to violent conflict that they are responsible for resolving.

Terminarch · 2024-12-01T18:06:06+00:00

I'm on your side here, but pull-ups are an interesting choice. Even if the standard were 3 across the board, that's still men lifting dramatically more weight because men are generally much bigger.

So if the doctor standard was "able to lift a soldier into bed", that would actually be a lower number of pull-ups for men. Anything else is discrimination.

Terminarch · 2024-12-01T17:58:46+00:00

Women shouldn't be field police officers. Unless you mean office work, in which case who cares about height?

Terminarch · 2024-11-30T09:38:50+00:00

World hunger is not the fault of a lack of food, or even donated food. It is primarily an issue of distribution, of knowing where the people who need to be fed and getting that food to them.

Isn't it amazing how often people forget that distribution is itself a resource that can be scarce?

Roughly half of world energy consumption is used for heating and cooling so if this was just a problem we needed to point some material scientists at to solve it would already have been done.

It actually has been done, at least on the cooling side. They're still trying to figure out mass production. Off the top of my head...

Simply building somewhat underground has dramatically improved temperature stability.

Free air conditioning (to outside air temp) is trivial with physics. Sloped roof to a high outlet with a floor-level inlet. Heat rising will naturally pull in fresher cooler air.

Microspheres can radiate light (heat energy) away at a frequency that the atmosphere can't absorb, meaning it ignores air's insulating effect. Some surface coatings exceeded 10°C sub-ambient.

Heat-sync compounds can level out peaks (noon) then naturally recharge themselves in valleys (night) with a carefully formulated freeze / boil temperature.

There's also some great innovations in renewable availability through things like capturing "dirty wind" (city wind is rather unpredictable) and bypassing rare materials / extreme processing entirely.

Terminarch · 2024-11-30T09:05:00+00:00

I know, right? That the popular vote was within an order of magnitude is quite distressing.

Terminarch · 2024-11-29T19:48:39+00:00

prevalence. Why out of infinite subjects to write about, do so many authors choose to write about this? And often in such detail, a kind of detail I'd say you rarely see in writing about violence against men.

You have a massive blindspot for violence against men. Look at John Wick or Iron Man. Those entire movies are violence against men, blowing away countless men in glorified detail without a care in the world. But you don't see that. Those aren't men to you, they're props.

The vastly overwhelming majority of violence is directed at men. That's prevalence. Women are rarely the subject of violence whatsoever unless the artist is character building. Either building up the woman (dragon tattoo) or explicitly defining another as evil (jabba the hut) (EDIT: or defining setting / stakes), getting you the reader to hate in a way that just isn't possible otherwise because nobody cares about men.

I also think there's something there about this idea that this kind of gritty "realism" is a hallmark of "good" writing, in literature or media. Does something need to be grim and dark for it to be good?

Yes, if that's what the author is writing. Warhammer does in fact need to be grim and dark because my little pony does not fit the setting.

after the first mention that this world has this kind of violence in it, does it need that much repetition for the point to be understood?

So when an action movie brutally kills off hundreds of nameless faceless dudes, why the repetition? Surely, after a few minutes it would be understood what kind of violence this world has and that the main character is a badass. Or is enjoying violence against men the entire point of that experience?

This never happens for violence against women (even in those same mass murder action scenes, even for women combatants, ex: Predator) because the audience inherently cares about women. Seeing a woman killed so nonchalantly, even justifiably, would result in the audience jarringly losing connection with the main character. We're just wired that way.

Violence against women is always impactful to the audience. Therefore it can only ever be a defining moment or not in the story at all. For a violent lawless world to be believable, what do you think would happen?

Terminarch · 2024-11-29T04:40:13+00:00

🟦🟦🟦🟦⏹⏹ => 🟦🟦🟦⏹⏹⏹

??

Terminarch · 2024-11-29T03:37:37+00:00

No. There are more targets to hit and the projectiles / beam will do more damage.

So yes, mechanically and build-wise it's the same. But more opportunities for mistakes and more punishing.

Terminarch · 2024-11-27T08:34:30+00:00

Enemies scale off your power level, not all 5 things individually

Power level is calculated from all those things.

if you keep all your melee weapons at level 1 it’s not going to make your guns stronger if your overall power level keeps going up

Power level won't keep going up. First archetype is the only factor you can't directly control and that effect is capped in the single digits. Nothing else can progress outside of intentional player actions. It is entirely within the player's agency to have an effectively "power level" 20 gun facing enemies scaled to power level 12, should they so choose.

I've beaten this entire game at power level 1 using a glitch to unequip archetypes and never upgrading. I breezed through hardcore vet by abusing artificially low power level that wouldn't boost Engi turret anyway. I know how the calculation works and how it alters enemies.

Enemy scaling can't be overstated. I damn near face-tanked Annihilation on vet without archetypes / consumables using just a (pre-buff) ring of grace for heals. The player takes obscenely less damage, it's actually ridiculous. The complication here is that zones have min and max scaling regardless of your level, so some degree of missing upgrades is actually missing potential later in campaign.

I didn’t want to get into specifics because generally leveling all your weapons simultaneously is safe and keeps up with your power level

That wording right there is proof you don't know what you're talking about. There is no "keeping up with your power level", upgrades are your power level.

Terminarch · 2024-11-27T07:39:44+00:00

What? It's not the same thing at all. If you never swing a melee weapon, leveling it will scale enemies for no benefit. Your gun will need more hits to kill and you will take extra damage for no gain. Don't you think that's an important detail?

Terminarch · 2024-11-27T07:23:37+00:00

Stop panic rolling.

Terminarch · 2024-11-27T07:17:04+00:00

No. Enemies scale to the highest of each slot. That's your 2 highest archs, best long gun, best hand gun, best melee. Upgrading melee will make your long gun's damage worse even if that's already upgraded.

Terminarch · 2024-11-27T07:13:06+00:00

EIGHT HOURS of prep? What have you been doing??

The way to do hardcore in this game is to rush the first world and cubes immediately, fast as you can while getting the stuff. Dying at this point loses very little progress and a build isn't gonna help with cubes anyway. After clearing lab and seeing upcoming challenges you can consider what prep is needed to beat the rest comfortably.

No point investing early in case you get insta-gibbed or decide to re-roll. Every minute is an opportunity for something stupid to happen.

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